Issue 26, 2013
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Beyond gold: rediscovering tetrakis-(hydroxymethyl)-phosphonium chloride (THPC) as an effective agent for the synthesis of ultra-small noble metal nanoparticles and Pt-containing nanoalloys†

José L. Hueso,*ab   Víctor Sebastián,a   Álvaro Mayoral,ac   Laura Usón,a   Manuel Arrueboab  and  Jesús Santamaría*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a Institute of Nanoscience of Aragon (INA) and Department of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology, University of Zaragoza, C/Mariano Esquillor, s/n, I+D+i Building, Zaragoza, Spain
E-mail: jlhueso@unizar.es, jesus.santamaria@unizar.es
Fax: +34 976 761879
Tel: +34 876555442

b CIBER de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Campus Río Ebro-Edificio I+D, 50018-Zaragoza, Spain

c Advanced Microscopy Laboratory, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

Abstract

The use of tetrakis-(hydroxymethyl)-phosphonium chloride (THPC) as simultaneous reducing agent and stabilizing ligand has been extended to the single-step synthesis at room temperature of a wide variety of monometallic nanoparticles and bi-/tri- metallic nanoalloys containing noble metals with potential application in catalysis. The colloidal suspensions exhibit mean diameters below 4 nm with narrow size distributions and high stability in aqueous solution for long periods of time.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3RA40774H
Article type
Paper
Submitted
13 Feb 2013
Accepted
01 May 2013
First published
01 May 2013

RSC Adv., 2013,3, 10427-10433

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Beyond gold: rediscovering tetrakis-(hydroxymethyl)-phosphonium chloride (THPC) as an effective agent for the synthesis of ultra-small noble metal nanoparticles and Pt-containing nanoalloys

J. L. Hueso, V. Sebastián, Á. Mayoral, L. Usón, M. Arruebo and J. Santamaría, RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 10427 DOI: 10.1039/C3RA40774H

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